Business
| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835–1915) | College 1856 | President of Union Pacific Railroad | |
| Marcus Agius (born 1946) | Business 1972 | Chairman, Barclays PLC | |
| Steve Ballmer (born 1956) | College 1977 | President and CEO of Microsoft | |
| Lloyd Blankfein | College 1975; Law 1978 | CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs | |
| Daniel Burke (1929–2011) | MBA 1955 | former President of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from 1986-1994, engineered the $3.5 billion acquisition of ABC by Capital Cities in 1986. | |
| Doug Carlston | College 1970; Law 1975 | Co-founder of Brøderbund Software | |
| Howard L. Clark, Sr. | Law | former CEO (1960–1977) American Express | |
| Michael Cohrs | College 1979; Business 1981 | Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank | |
| Zoe Cruz (b. 1955) | College 1977; Business 1982 | Former Co-President of Morgan Stanley | |
| Jamie Dimon (born 1956) | Business 1982 | Chairman & CEO of JPMorgan Chase | |
| Colin Drummond (born 1951) | MBA | CEO of Viridor and joint CEO of Pennon Group | |
| Victor Fung (born 1945) | Ph.D. 1971 | Chairman of Li & Fung group of companies | |
| Philippe Harache (born 1954) | Advanced Management programme | Former deputy CEO of Eurocopter | |
| Trip Hawkins (born 1953) | College 1976 | Founder of Electronic Arts and the 3DO Company | |
| Sean M. Healey (born 1961) | College 1983; Law 1987 | CEO of Affiliated Managers Group and chairman of the Peabody Essex Museum | |
| Warren Hellman (born 1934) | Business 1959 | Founder of Hellman & Friedman and Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates (today Matrix Partners). Former president, chairman, head of Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers. | |
| Richard Leslie Huber (born 1936) | College 1958 | Former CEO (1997–2000) of Aetna | |
| Jeffrey R. Immelt (born 1956) | Business 1982 | Chairman & CEO of General Electric | hbs.edu |
| Whipple V. N. Jones (1909–2001) | College 1932, Business | Founder of Aspen Highlands | |
| Carol Kalish (1955-1991) | Radcliffe College | editor, Marvel Comics executive | |
| Jeff Kindler | Law 1980 | CEO of Pfizer | |
| Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan (born 1938) | Business 1964 | Tamil Malaysian businessman and philanthropist | |
| J. Hicks Lanier | Business 1964 | CEO of Oxford Industries | |
| John Loeb (1902–1996) | College 1924 | Financier | |
| John Langeloth Loeb, Jr. | College 1952; Business 1954 | Chairman of Loeb, Rhoades Trust Company; former United States Ambassador to Denmark | |
| Stanley Marcus (1905–2002) | College 1925; Business 1926 | President and CEO, Neiman Marcus department stores | |
| Douglas McGregor (1906–1964) | A.M. 1933; Ph.D. 1935 | Management theorist | |
| James McNerney (born 1949) | Business 1975 | Chairman and CEO of Boeing | |
| George W. Merck (born 1894) | College 1915 | Industrialist; president of Merck & Co. | |
| Sumner Redstone (born 1923) | College 1944; Law 1947 | Chairman and CEO of Viacom | |
| Fred Reichheld (born 1952) | College 1974; Business 1978 | Author of bestselling business books | |
| Kevin Patrick Reilly, Sr. (born 1928) | College (ca. 1950) | Retired CEO of Lamar Advertising Company in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives | |
| David Rockefeller (born 1916) | College 1936 | Banker; Philanthropist; Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank | |
| Sean E. Reilly (born 1961) | College 1984, Law 1989 | Chief operations officer and vice president for mergers and acquisitions of Lamar Advertising and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives | |
| Steve Schwarzman (born 1947) | Business 1972 | Billionaire, owner of Blackstone Group | |
| Sivasankaran (born 1956) | Business 1975 | Chairman of Siva Group | |
| Jeffrey Skilling (born 1953) | Business 1979 | CEO of Enron; convicted of fraud and conspiracy. | |
| Jan Stenbeck (1942–2002) | Business | President of MTG | |
| William H Sumner (1780–1861) | College 1799 | Developed East Boston | |
| Ratan Naval Tata (born 1937) | Business 1975 | Chairman of Tata Group | |
| John Thain (born 1955) | Business 1979 | Chairman & CEO of CIT Group, last Chairman & CEO of Merrill Lynch | |
| Charlemagne Tower (1809–1889) | Law 1830 | Lawyer and Businessman. Towns in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and North Dakota are named after him. Also served on Harvard's board of overseers. | |
| Harry Elkins Widener (1885–1912) | College 1907 | Harvard's Widener Library is named after him, died in the sinking of the Titanic | |
| Moses Znaimer (born 1942) | A.M. | Canadian media mogul |
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